Thursday, February 07, 2002
I believe that tonight I will commit briefness, which should come as a welcomed change. I spent most of the day putting the finishing touches on Chapter 2. And reading a long osteological monograph on the pterosaur Pteranodon.
Most of my paleontological work has concerned mosasaurs, but I had the incredible good fortune to discover (while looking for mosasaurs) about half of a very small pterosaur femur. By all acounts, it seems to be a juvenile, possibly a hatchling. The length of the femur, well the part I recovered, is only a little better than 2 cm., which is remarkable, considering that an adult of the genus that this appears to be would have a wingspan of 20-30 feet!
Tomorrow I may begin Chapter 3.
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